Realty Check

Web sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and ActiveRain present a golden opportunity to connect with friends, colleagues, and clients.
April 2009
You hear a lot about social media today, and rightly so.
Get the most benefit from these tools by following these basic rules:
Be authentic. Your profile is the first thing people will see when they visit your [...]

The new year is a new opportunity to upgrade, integrate, and streamline your operations. Learn more about the technologies that can make you a more effective professional.
By Michael Antoniak | January 2010
With each new year comes an opportunity to rethink the products and services that empower your real estate career. As 2010 dawns, the desire [...]

With Every Tweet, Provide a Takeaway
By Katherine Tarbox | September 2009
By now you’ve heard plenty of talk about the free microblogging service Twitter. The way it works is simple: Once you’re signed up, you can broadcast short (140 characters or fewer) text messages and links to your “followers” and receive updates from the people you [...]

How can you maximize your exposure on the Web? Here’s how.
By Brian Summerfield | September 2009
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about online networking is the wide range of reactions it stirs up. Some real estate professionals swear by it. Others say it’s a diversion at best—and an utter waste of time at worst.

Somewhere between these [...]

With Cherryl Hanson-Simpson
Thursday, July 09, 2009
In challenging times there are always tremendous opportunities for smart investors to make profit. Despite the fact that we are in the middle of a reported recession, there are several ways to earn good returns from investing in Jamaica.
Right now, money market instruments are yielding attractive interest rates; government global [...]

LEGAL NOTES
With Andrea Scarlett-Lozer
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The most fundamental tenet of the relationship between a landlord and a tenant is that the tenant has the exclusive right to occupy and possess the premises that he has rented from his landlord. The tenant has the legal right to exclude all persons, including the landlord, from the [...]

WASHINGTON, May 14, 2009
Citizens of other countries represent an important segment of the U.S. home buying market, and now new special visa categories that allow foreign nationals to gain U.S. residency can help facilitate that process. By using these visa categories correctly, Realtors® will be able to help many more buyers from overseas purchase property [...]

You use the phone everyday in real estate but could you be turning off potential customers with your poor phone etiquette? Follow these basic strategies to make sure your phone behavior is up to par.
Minimalism advocate D.H. Mondfleur once said, “Cell phones are the latest invention in rudeness.”
In fact, 68 percent of Americans say they [...]